Wilderness Age

Chu Xingzhou took out two gold coins from his pocket and tossed them in his hands.

"In this way, you can answer our doubts, how about these two gold coins as a thank you?"

"Oh, honored guest, I am happy to serve you. It is the responsibility of every Doblin to make guests feel at home, but this is the mother tree. Do you know what the mother tree means to us Doblin..."

It means more gold coins, Chu Xingzhou thought.

"Three gold coins, no more."

"Five, no less."

Chu Xingzhou groaned for a while, pretending to think for a moment and then said, "I agree."

He threw five gold coins over, and Brynjaraquel put the gold coins into his purse with a smile on his face.

Chu Xingzhou shook his wrist and showed the blade of grass bracelet on it: "Let me explain what this is first?"

Jacquel counted the money bags without raising his eyes: "This is a token, distinguished guest, it means that you have obtained the pass to the legendary Doblin King City, and you can stay here for an extra day, so you don't have to rush to the city. road."

Chu Xingzhou shook his head and didn't agree with his answer: "You know I don't want to hear such stereotypes. If you are going to continue to deal with us like this, I will consider taking back the gold coins."

Jacquel raised his head to look at him, and smiled: "But this is the truth, my guests, you see, I told the truth, but you don't believe it."

Chu Xingzhou didn't want to push and pull with him, so he asked directly, "The grass leaves used to weave this bracelet are the roots of the mother tree, right?"

Jaquel: "Yes guest, you're right!"

Chu Xingzhou: "Then what are these hearts?"

Jacquil smiled slyly: "These, these are of course the heart of the mother tree!"

"The heart of the mother tree?" Chu Xingzhou asked back, identifying one by one, "Human, shark, swamp crocodile, wild boar...there are so many types, so what kind of mother tree is it?"

Jaquel sang: "O mother tree, mother tree is the legendary Doblin's mother, the personification of the earth and the forest, the most beloved and merciful of Doblin..."

Chu Xingzhou: "...don't go around in circles."

Little Rabdo was in a hurry: "Jacquell, stop reciting poems, tell us quickly!"

Chu Xingzhou continued to speak the question he was interrupted by Duoduo: "... Will we, the drifters who wear the bracelet, become one of these hearts?"

Jaquel touched Labdodo's little light ball: "Little Rabdodo, you are too young, you are only less than one year old, after you differentiate for the first time, you will know more, differentiate It's a painful process, but we Doblin will get the knowledge inheritance from our predecessors and the power of the mother tree during the differentiation, ah, differentiation, it gives us pain and also gives us strength!"

He turned to the three and asked, "Do you know why the bracelet can help you stay?"

Without waiting for the three of them to guess wildly, Jacquel replied by himself: "Because the 'mother tree' is protecting you, making the will of the world think that you are part of the mother tree, so when the drifting node arrives, you will not be pulled by the power of the world. take away."

"However, the power of the grass leaves after leaving the mother tree is weakened, so the effect is time-limited. It can only help you to be blinded for a while. When the second node arrives, the cover of the breath will be invalid, and you will be repelled. Leave Doblin. Mountains, return to drifting in disorder." Jacquil grinned, "Unless you are willing to pay gold coins, Doblin will replace you with new bracelets!"

"So drifters, you should thank the mother tree!" Jacquil said loudly.

Yu Ze looked at Jaraquell indifferently: "Doblin, you are dishonest."

Jaquel stretched out a finger towards the sky: "I swear to the mother tree, Jaquel is an honest Doblin, and there is no false word."

Yu Ze: "I think you should have concealed part of the truth and not confessed it to us."

"If there is any—" Da Brin spread his hands, "then your gold coins are only worth as much as Jaquel said."

Chu Xingzhou: "This is inconsistent with our deal."

"Jacquele has complied with the agreement and answered your questions. Talking more or less is not within the scope of our agreement."

The cunning Doblin, Chu Xingzhou narrowed his eyes, and had the urge to do something, but he endured it, and said in a deep voice: "Jacquell, you are a friend of Labrador, we don't want to use rough methods to force you Submit, here are ten gold coins, if you accept it, I hope you will tell us everything honestly—be clear, and don’t be clever.”

He paused, examining the expression of Jacquel: "If you don't accept it, we can also turn this place upside down, I understand that this is your Doblin's kingdom, but believe me, as an experienced drifter , we have the ability to make a mess of this place, take all the gold coins in your purse, and get out of here with a smile on your face."

The smile on Jacquil's face disappeared, and her eyes widened angrily.

"Drifter, Doblins don't take threats! No Doblin will succumb to a Drifter's intimidation!"

Jaquel said this in a loud voice, and suddenly changed the topic: "However, distinguished guest, you generously paid another ten gold coins, you are a good person! So of course Doblin will treat you sincerely!"

...will not submit to duress, but to gold coins.

This typical mostly Brin friend stretched out his hand, palm up, and his mouth covered half of his face with a grin: "Thank you for this generous and distinguished guest!"

Labrador let go of his trembling desire to persuade him to make peace.

But Chu Xingzhou put away the gold coins: "This time, I will pay you all the gold coins only after our agreement is completed."

Doblin withdrew half of his smile. He carefully looked at Chu Xingzhou's expression to confirm that what he said was serious, and the remaining half of his smile disappeared.

He walked back and forth on the ground twice with his hands behind his back, and it made Doblin so anxious that he couldn't touch the gold coins!

Labrador floated to his side and called softly: "Jeraquel~"

Most of Brin stopped, and cast his heavy eyes from Xiaoguang Tuanzi to Chu Xingzhou Yuze, and then let out a soft "hum".

"Oh, our honored guests, human drifters, you are too curious and wary, this is not a good thing."

Jaquel walked to a big rock and jumped on it, sat down and looked down at the few people with his chin in his hands.

"Where do we begin..."

Let’s start with the blade of grass bracelet.

As soon as Jacquil stretched out his hand, he pulled a thin blade of grass from the high hanging root.

Seeing that he picked it so easily, it was not as laborious as when Suo Tianyou mowed the grass with the wind blade.

Chu Xingzhou asked if the person wearing the bracelet was used as a heart reserve for the "mother tree".

The answer is "yes".

And it's not just a reserve, from the moment they put on the bracelet, they are being assimilated by the "mother tree", unknowingly sending nutrients and energy to the grass leaves, they can avoid the repulsion of the power of the world at the time node, hide Drifting, because at that time they were not independent people under the rules of the world, but the roots of the doblin mother tree.

It's just that the grass leaves that have left the mother tree are weak, so this kind of assimilation and absorption of energy from the drifter's body is minimal, and it will expire within twelve hours, so the drifter cannot notice it.

Therefore, for the "Mother Tree", those who wear the bracelets are containers for hearts that can run around alive and kicking.

At the end of the twelve hours, the drifter must wear a new bracelet if he wishes to remain in the Doblin Mountains.

Doblin's asking price is higher every time. Is it because the "mother tree" is very precious, and cutting the roots of the "mother tree" to help drifters is a costly thing?

of course not.

The prices are high just because they love money.

Doblin's love for gold coins is so passionate and sincere.

And the higher the asking price, the more people will believe, it's worth it!

"Isn't it? That's what humans think." Jacquil said.

But in fact, who is really paying the price?

It's these castaways.

They traded their life force for time to stay in the central mountain range of Doblin.

When the drifters put on the wristbands, they thought they were gaining time, but they were actually giving their lives.

"This is a very good deal, isn't it, my friend?" Jacquel stretched out two fingers and made a mimi gesture. Undiscovered life energy."

"Is it really just a little bit?"

"You don't believe it?" Jacquil asked back in amazement, "You are keen and powerful drifters, have you felt the passing of power? Absolutely not!"

"What if there were drifters wearing this bracelet year after year, day after day, every day?"

Jacquil rolled her eyes and smiled.

The negative effect of the Grass Leaf Bracelet is really invisible for a day or two, but after wearing it for a long time, the connection with the "mother tree" becomes deeper and deeper, and becoming the root of the "mother tree" is no longer a temporary treat for the world. A blinding effect of the will, but a fact.

The container lost its will, shed its skin, and left behind a heart that the "mother tree" needed.

This time, Jacquil really didn't play tricks, and shared with them the inside story that the Doblin tribe only knew.

As he puts it, Doblin really isn't afraid to let humans know the truth.

They are confident and unscrupulous.

The intentional concealment is just because I don't want to cause unnecessary arguments.

"Drafters will always die, if they don't leave their lives in Doblin's world, they will also leave them in some other unknown corner, dying a desolate death.

Instead, in the legendary Dodobrinda Mizels Central Mountain Range, here you live and die.

Isn't that bad? "

To be fully assimilated, one must wear the Grass Leaf Bracelet for at least a hundred days, because the Doblin renewal fee is doubled, and very few drifters will stay in the Doblin Mountains for many days in a row.So in fact, very few drifters have been truly assimilated so far, and a few of them were in poor health, or were seriously injured and couldn't survive, died in the Central Mountain Range or Bailu Valley, and were taken in by the "mother tree" by the way.

So no drifter has discovered this truth so far, and no one has questioned it.

The "mother tree" is undoubtedly a giant, so Doblin actually didn't deliberately set traps for the drifters. The drifters are like small shrimps delivered to their mouths. They eat as soon as they are eaten, and it doesn't matter if they can't eat them. " "Mother Tree" won't bother with it.

The same is true for Doblin, he did the business, earned the gold coins, and sent a few snacks to the "mother tree" along the way.

that is it.

Chu Xingzhou was silent for a long time: "You guys are deceiving."

"Cheating?" Jacquier frowned and shook his head vigorously, "No, no, no, no, it's just a small part of the truth that was hidden in good faith."

Then he made an analogy: "As far as I know, you humans have domesticated thousands of small animals, raised them to be fat and smooth, and then ate them. Didn't they die before they died? Live comfortably too? So do you think, is this a relationship of cheating and being cheated, my friend? Did you say hello to them and say hello kid, I kept you just to eat you?"

As he talked, he felt that something was wrong. It seemed that Doblin was treating human beings as food to be slaughtered sooner or later, so he changed the term.

"Our Doblin is doing business with integrity. You are in Bailu Valley, in Doblin King City, and in every corner of the Central Mountain Range. Is there anything we don't do well in the hospitality of our guests? Is there something inconsiderate in our service?

Even you rudely broke into the root system of the mother tree, the core forbidden area of ​​Doblin, a place where even a little Doblin like him is not qualified to pay tribute, because you wear bracelets representing the status of guests, I am afraid Did not call the guards, throw you out!

Drifter, we Doblins don't do harm, but people die anyway, and that's none of our business.

In your human language, what is this called?Uh...environmental protection, yes, environmental protection, waste utilization, garbage collection, that's all. "

Several people were shocked by Doblin's righteousness.

Yu Ze pointed to the green part of the heart and asked: "Are these green ones Doblin's heart? Labrador said that your relationship with the 'mother tree' is mother and child, will she eat you too?"

"Oh yes, Drifter."

Jacquil looked at those green hearts, and there was longing in his voice: "That is the core of Doblin. Only the most legendary and powerful Doblin can condense the core after death, and have glory. Entering the heart of the mother tree, being born in the mother tree, returning to the mother tree, this is the most perfect ending of Doblin's life!"

"Isn't it recycled garbage?" Chu Xingzhou asked coolly.

Doblin choked, stared, and spread his hands: "Little Rabdo, do you see? It is unwise to reason with human beings."

He jumped off the big rock and walked up to Chu Xingzhou: "Okay, I've finished what I need to say, here are the gold coins!"

Chu Xingzhou took out the gold coin and threw it over.

Jacquil counted the coins one by one, and each of the ten gold coins was quite a lot.

"Let's leave here if you are curious. Doblin doesn't like people breaking into the heart of the mother tree. If you are caught by the guards, you will be fined! Thank you for your patronage! Goodbye!" Jacqueline left with the money bag, leaving The next figure waved his hand, "Little Rabdo, remember to come and play with me when you have time!"

Most of Brin left, and the cave returned to silence. The ore shone with dim light spots, leaving mottled light and shadow on this side of the world.

In this root forest, thousands of hearts are still beating, providing endless nutrients for the "mother tree".

The "mother tree" grows more and more luxuriantly. When the wind blows, the invisible spirit of the tree spreads like dandelion seeds all over the world, so more and more Doblins are born. When they grow old, they will return here, The skins faded away, leaving a "core" that condensed their lives and became the root of the "mother tree".

This is Doblin's birthplace and Doblin's grave.

This is their way of being.